Chicago based openly gay writer Robert Rodi had a string of very successful hits with his highly enjoyable fluffy gay novels in the 1990’s which included such titles as Fag Hag, and Closet Case. One of them, Kept Boy, has now been made into a full-length feature film and like the sugar-daddy protagonist in the story it simply has not weathered well with time, and looks rather dated now.
Kept Boy starts with the 30th Birthday of Dennis Racine (37 year old Brit actor Jon Paul Phillips) who is told by his sugar-daddy the Interior Designer/Reality Show star Farleigh Knock (German actor Thure Riefenstein) that he should celebrate by actually getting a job as money is getting rather tight. A disgruntled Dennis discovers that being a Boy Toy is not exactly a qualification that employers recognize, and even his local Starbucks in LA tell him that they are only hiring people with PhD’s (!)
Farleigh’s TV Show may not be pulling in the audiences and the big bucks like it used too, but that doesn’t stop him promoting the hunky sultry Pool Boy Jasper (Greg Audino ) into his Design Assistant and publicly pampering him. Now afraid that he really is on his way out, Dennis consults with his two best friends Lonnie (John-Michael Carlton) and Paulette (Toni Romano-Cohen) who have also made careers being ‘paid companions’ to older partners.
Dennis and Jasper dislike each other so much as they vie for Farleigh’s attention, the writing is on the wall as to how this is all going to pan out. The predictable story may be a disappointment but at least it gives another excuse for showing more naked flesh of the two younger men.
This movie which is the sophomore feature directed by George Bamber somehow feels as if it was made some twenty years ago. It is billed as a ‘dark gay comedy’ and although it is amusing in parts, it is really not that funny.
Labels: 2017, black comedy, drama, explicit nudity
